• goat@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    56·
    3 days ago

    Face the wall refers to shooting squads, which happened often in gulags.

    Death threats also goes against Hexbear’s ToS, but Admins never act on these violations

  • Schwim Dandy@piefed.zipEnglish
    49·
    3 days ago

    It’s hexbear. Those of us that understand that’s their baseline blocked the instance long ago.

  • TheTetrapod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    618·
    3 days ago

    I mean, it’s more of a wish than a threat. I’m sure most of us have walked that line of social media before.

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
      111·
      3 days ago

      i’ve never wished death on other users before.

      on plenty of dictators, sure, but never ordinary people

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Not sure actually. I must’ve tagged them a long time ago. Dug through their history and didn’t see anything crazy. They were in one particular thread I read that was full of tankies but didn’t say anything wild so it might have been a misclick on my end?

          I usually don’t tag people unless they say some heinous shit but now I’m not sure so I guess I’ll remove this one.

          • TheTetrapod@lemmy.worldEnglish
            32·
            2 days ago

            It’s probably because PugJesus got mad at me for claiming that ‘authoritarian’ isn’t a valid political term and exists primarily to lump together fascist and communist regimes. It’s not something I believe(d) particularly strongly, but I’ve heard it multiple times and it feels right, so I parroted it and ended up on this subreddit.

              • TheTetrapod@lemmy.worldEnglish
                31·
                2 days ago

                Again, this is not something that I feel strongly enough about to go to bat for, but I’ve watched a couple of videos essays over the years. The argument is essentially that many governments that are called authoritarian have very little in common besides being considered enemies of those in capitalist power. Therefore the government and the media paint them all with the same evil-sounding brush. I think I’ve heard this argument is more valid for the word ‘totalitarian’, but I would need to do more research.

                • goat@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
                  3·
                  2 days ago

                  But both China and Russia are very much capitalist, though you can exclude China if you think they’re ‘building up to communism via capitalism’

                  So if both of these nations are capitalist, how can they be considered enemies of those in capitalist power?

            • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 days ago

              Oh, yeah maybe. The “authoritarian is a fake word” bit is a tankie favorite, though your point about totalitarian being a better word is pretty spot on. I think I’ll use that from now on.

            • hatorade@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              So people downvoted you because of a screenshot, of a tag, that had no reason to assigned to you. That’s impressive.